Sumner v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2007
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bott v. Burnell · Bogan v. Hamilton · Montgomery Iron Works v. Capital City Insurance · Throne Franklin Shoe Co. v. Gunn · Bickley v. Bickley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Also that tract of land situated in Greene county, Alabama, known as the ‘Hancock Place,’ and more particularly described as follows, to wit ” (followed by government- subdivisions).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mills v. Jordan
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.